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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival
material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are
physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available
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This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National
Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

Otis Tufton Mason (1838-1908) was an ethnologist. The collection includes correspondence,
1883-1910, mainly concerning the genealogy and history of the Mason and related families,
addressed to Mason; letters, July-August 1889, from Mason to his wife, describing
in detail his sightseeing in London, England, and Paris, France; and assorted other
items including photographs, and clippings.

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants,
as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Otis Tufton Mason Papers, #3854-z, Southern Historical
Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Emily Pollard of Chapel Hill, N.C., March 1968.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or
confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy
laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. §
132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of
State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.).
Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to
identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent
of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under
common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's
private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable
person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no
responsibility.

The following terms from
Library of Congress Subject
Headings
suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the
entire collection; the terms do
not usually represent
discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or
items.

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online catalog.

The collection includes correspondence, 1883-1910, of Otis Tufton Mason, mainly concerning
the genealogy and history of the Mason and related families; letters, July-August
1889, from Mason to his wife, describing in detail his sightseeing in London, England,
and Paris, France; and assorted other items including photographs, and clippings.